Re: If records are not sequences, why does aref work on records?

["Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>]

On 2017-04-07 15:41, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Clément Pit-Claudel
> <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-04-07 15:07, Noam Postavsky wrote:
>>> If you do (cl-defstruct person age height), you
>>> don't care whether 'age' goes before 'height', just that person-age
>>> gives you the age field.
>>
>> Sometimes you do — for example, you might know that multiple structures in your application have the same data in their first field, and if so (aref x 1) should work.
> 
> In that case, you should be probably be using :include for the common
> parts, or else :type to explicitly use vectors. 

Very good point.

> I'm sure you can come up with exceptions to that too though :)

Hum.  Users who don't read the manual closely enough ? 😳 :)